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In honour of National Indigenous History Month in Canada, we’ve selected a list of available and forthcoming titles that explore the history and heritage of Indigenous, Métis, and Inuit Peoples in Canada—and how their stories and history under the last 150 years of colonization shape the present and future sociopolitical landscape.
Edited by John Borrows, Larry Chartrand, Oonagh E. Fitzgerald and Risa Schwartz
An examination of international, Indigenous, and Canadian constitutional law relating to the implementation of UNDRIP in Canada by leading Indigenous legal scholars and policy leaders.
By Kent Roach, foreword by John Borrows
“In a meticulously researched and documented analysis of the trial of Gerald Stanley for the killing of Boushie in 2016, Roach exposes a whole system designed to maintain inequality between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians.” The Tyee
By Thomas J. Courchene
“In a masterful work on one of the most important themes of our country’s public policy history, Courchene lays out the historical, legal, and socio-economic context for Indigenous policy formation in Canada and, drawing on this background, makes a proposal (the Commonwealth of Sovereign Indigenous Nations) to catalyze debate.” Donner Prize jury
By Marianne Ignace and Ronald E Ignace, foreword by Bonnie Leonard
“… a major and unique contribution. [This] book offers a deep history of the Secwépemc across millennia through the lens of an Indigenized methodology that draws together both Secwépemc knowledge-in the forms of lived experience, oral knowledge, ontology, and law among others-and knowledge produced through the disciplinary conventions of the Western academy. [It] provides an unparalleled exemplar for Indigenized, collaborative scholarly practice.” Canadian Aboriginal History jury
Available in both official languages
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) urges Canada to adopt the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as a framework for reconciliation. While Aboriginal peoples are victims of violence and discrimination, they are also holders of Treaty, Aboriginal, and human rights and have a critical role to play in reconciliation. All Canadians must understand how traditional First Nations, Inuit, and Métis approaches to resolving conflict, repairing harm, and restoring relationships can inform the reconciliation process. The TRC’s calls to action identify the concrete steps that must be taken to ensure that our children and grandchildren can live together in dignity, peace, and prosperity on these lands we now share.
By Georges E. Sioui
Identifying Canada’s first civilizations as the originators of modern democracy, Eatenonha represents a continuing quest to heal and educate all peoples through an Indigenous way of comprehending life and the world. Forthcoming September 2019.
By Catherine Althaus and Ciaran O’Faircheallaigh
At a time when Canada and Australia seek to advance reconciliation and self-determination agendas, Leading from Between shows how public servants who straddle the worlds of Western bureaucracy and Indigenous communities are key to helping governments meet the opportunities and challenges of growing diversity. Forthcoming November 2019.
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